A word from the editor - MARTIN TOWNSEND

In the midst of one of his occasional attempts to bring order to his room, my son unearthed a dusty shoebox full of old holiday videos last week. Ordinarily, I would scuttle to safety at the first hint of him fast-forwarding through hours of Disney World, Florida, in search of some semi-mythical “funny bits”, but something about the tapes kept me watching.